Report: Cain to endorse Newt on Monday

Fox-5 in Atlanta, the same station that broke the Ginger White allegations, is reporting that Herman Cain is going to endorse Newt Gingrich on Monday. Gingrich's camp put a late add of a press conference at 1:45 p.m. on his schedule.

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The endorsement had seemed likely, and Mike Allen predicted it in Playbook this morning.

Gingrich was effusive in his praise of Cain while he himself was in New York over the weekend for a town hall event on Staten Island. And polling even before the former Godfather's Pizza CEO dropped out had suggested Gingrich would be the beneficiary of his support.

But it will give Gingrich a potentially immediate boost of a few more points in Iowa, where two polls over the weekend showed him as the clear front-runner already at this stage of the game.